Blackburn Rural District
53°44′49″N 2°28′48″W / 53.747°N 2.480°W Blackburn was a rural district in Lancashire from 1894 to 1974.
It was named after, but did not include
exclave on the south-eastern side of Blackburn, consisting of the parishes of Yate and Pickup Bank and Eccleshill
.
It was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894. It lost the parish of Witton to Blackburn in the 1930s.
In 1974, under the
Blackburn and Ribble Valley.[1]
References
- ^ "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 1972/2039, retrieved 22 August 2022